Ubuntu 11.

10 Features
Operating Environment Default Feature Applications

Operating Environment
Login Screen Desktop Dash Home File Manager Ubuntu Software Center Ubuntu One (Cloud) System Settings Workspace Alt+Tab Preview

Login Screen

New Concept of Unity shell interface (Desktop Enviroment) A new login screen called LightDM (Light Display Manager) is in use for Ubuntu 11.10. Now users can login with either the Unity 2D or 3D desktop.

Desktop

Unity Panel: Power menu, messaging menu Unity Launcher Unity Dash Appearance

Unity Dash

It easier to sort applications, files and folders Unity Lens: more refined search within separate categories for File, Music and Applications More advanced filter which allows to perform search according to ratings of applications and other. Create new application and publish it on Ubuntu.

File Manager

Ubuntu 11.10 comes with a simplified Nautilus file manager. It provides a tabbed interface with the option to use multiple tabs. The menu buttons for maximized windows are only revealed by mouse hover and are hidden by default. This keeps the Gnome Panel tidy.

Ubuntu Software Center

Codename as AppCenter It is a computer program for browsing, installing and removing software on the Ubuntu operating system. It gives instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications. Each application comes with ratings

Ubuntu One

It is the personal cloud. Cloud services includes storage, sync, sharing and streaming. Stored data can be retrieve from anywhere even on Window's operation system.

System Settings

Easy to switch system settings directly from launcher. Categorize into three parts: o Personal o Hardware o System

Workspaces

Four workspace available to work simultaneously. Opened application can move from one workspace to another.

Alt+Tab Preview

Display all running applications at once. Facilitate to maximize running application in preview dock too.

Trash

Optimized Trash Fast restore Allow user to view files inside folder without restore

Feature Applications
Firefox 7 (Web Browser) Mozilla Thunderbird 7 (Email Client) Deja Dup Backup Brasero Disk Burner Libre Office 3.4 Shotwell Photo Manager GIMP (Graphics Editor) Banshee Music Player Gwibber Social Client Empathy Instant Messenger

Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser.
Features include: tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager,

private browsing,
location-aware browsing More Functions can be added through extensions. Firefox provides an environment for web developers

Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform email and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird supports POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). It security features such as SSL/TLS connections to IMAP

Deja Dup Backup

It is a simple backup tool.
Also know as Duplicity is a software suite. Features: Support for local, remote, or cloud backup locations Securely encrypts and compresses data Letting us to restore from any particular backup Schedules regular backups

Brasero
Brasero is a free disc-burning program for Unixlike systems.
Brasero supports both CD and DVD formats.

Features:
Data Audio Copy Erase disk

Drag and drop

LibreOffice

It is a freely available, full featured office productivity suite. It is developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. Its native file format is OpenDocument. It can open and save documents in many other formats.

LibreOffice
LibreOffice includes the following components:
Writer (word processor) Calc (spreadsheet) Impress (presentations) Draw (vector graphics) Base(database) Math(Formula editor)

LibreOffice Writer
It is a feature-rich tool for creating letters, reports, books, newsletter, brochures and other doucuments.

LibreOffice Writer
Features Includes
Templates and styles A grammar checker Support for autofilter per sheet Page-layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects Built-in drawing tools

Java text rendering replaced by native text rendering which greatly improves readability
The preexisting Java dialogs have been replaced with simpler native dialog boxes.

Support Color and line styles for the columns and footnote separator lines. This is improving the compatibility of LibreOffice with ODF

LibreOffice Calc
Calc has all of the advanced analysis, charting and decision-making features expected from high-end spreadsheet.

LibreOffice Impress
Impress provides all the common multimedia presentation tools, such as special effects, animation, and drawing tools.

LibreOffice Draw
Draw is a vector drawing tool that can produce everything from simple diagrams or flowcharts to 3-D artwork.

LibreOffice Base
Base provides tools for day-to-day database work within a simple interface.
It can create and edit forms, reports, queries, tables, views, and relations.

LibreOffice Math
Math is LibreOffices formula or equation editor.
We can use it to create complex equations that include symbols or characters not available in standard font sets.

Shotwell
Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management.
Features: It directly can import photos and videos from a digital camera. It can groups photos and videos by date Supports tagging. image editing features allow users to rotate, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance. Shotwell allows users to publish their images and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums and YouTube.

GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
It is a free and open source software raster graphics editor.

GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as:

Resizing Editing

Cropping
Combining Muliple Images Converting different formats Creation of Animated Images

Banshee Media Player

Banshee is an open-source media player.
Features:
It can play and import audio CDs Supports many portable media players Last.fm integration Album artwork fetching,

Smart playlists
Podcast support.

Gwibber
Gwibber is a microblogging client.
It brings the most popular social networking like Facebook, twitter, etc.

Features:
it provides a combined stream of all the messages in a single window. It Automatically shortens URLs when they are pasted during the preparing post. Built-in search tool and support for saved searches Optional support for spell-checking as soon as we type on screen Multicolumn user interface for viewing multiple streams

Empathy Instant Messenger

Empathy is an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers.
Features: Voice and video calls using SIP, MSN and XMPP (including support for Google Talk voice calls) File transfer for XMPP Geolocation of contacts (can display contacts on a map) Desktop sharing (remote control) Automatic configuration of Google Talk accounts (with GNOME Online Accounts)

Other Utilities
Ubuntu Studio: It is explicitly geared to general
multimedia production.

Ubuntu TV: It is a Smart TV operating system

developed by Canonical, based on the Ubuntu operating system

Ubuntu for Android: It is an upcoming free and open

source variant of Ubuntu designed to run on Android phones

Wine: It is a free and open source software

application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.

Document Freedom Day 2012

Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a day designed to "raise awareness about document freedom on the last Wednesday of March". Document Freedom Day was first celebrated on March 26, 2008, and is organized and funded by the Free Software Foundation Europe.
This year, it is on 28th March. Goals of Document Freedom Day:
promotion and adoption of free document formats forming a global network

coordination of activities that happen on last Wednesday of March, Document Freedom Day

Thank you.